Życie i działalność dr Aleksandra Margolisa
Life and work of dr Aleksander Margolis

Summary/Abstract: Dr Aleksander Margolis was born on 21 February in Suwałki in a doctor`s Jewish family. At the end of the 19th century, the Margolis family started living in Lodz, where Aleksander graduated from the grammar school (1905). He studied medicine in Germany. He nostrificated his doctor`s diploma in Kazan. In 1920, A. Margolis married a doctor Anna Markson; Mr. and Mrs. Margolis had two children: a son Jan and daughter Alina. In the period of the 2nd Republic he became an ward head of an infectious ward and department of internal diseases in a hospital in Radogoszcz, Lodz. As a doctor of scientific interests he concentrated on tuberculosis, typhoid fever, gastric stomach and duodenal ulcer, allergy and issues connected with blood groups. A. Margolis actively took part in works of the Board of Polish Chamber of Physicians, Physician`s Law Court, Town Council and Department of Public Health. In the years 1928 – 1932, he was a president of the Main Council of Fight Against Tuberculosis in Lodz. He was a confirmed layman and leftist. He was a member of the Central Committee of Jewish Labour Union Bund. From the list of this organization in 1927, he was appointed to a post of a council member. Despite his socialistic views, he very early realised the essence of Russian Bolshevism. In September 1939, he undertook his activity in the Section of Health of Civic Committee. He was arrested by Germans on 11 November 1939 and stayed in a penalty camp on the area of a Glazer`s brick-field (Radogoszcz) where he was beaten and humiliated. In December 1939, he was executed together with a group of other prisoners.

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